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Blogbytes: when strategy is execution

Market Leader January 2012

In New York in the early 1960s, a truly seminal ad campaign broke. Posters in the subway, showing different ethnic

Partners or suppliers?

Market Leader January 2012

Agencies have always liked to think of themselves as partners but Derek Day questions just how realistic this is. Quoting

Ten principles of social marketing

Colourful Molucles - Market Leader

There are ten simple – but not always obvious – social principles that I’ve found useful while working in digital

The incalculable benefit of not going backwards

jeremy bullmore Marketing Leader

Let’s invent a market: an established, low-tech, low-cost, repeat-purchase market. Let’s call it the greeby market.

Greebies are used in

Innovate faster, cheaper and with lower risk

Big Cat - Market Leader 2011

 Traditional marketing approaches run the risk of being slow and ponderous. Anthony Freeling argues that ‘agile marketing’ is a requirement

Good choice architecture’ retains control

Market Leader 2011

THE QUESTION of how much control we, as marketers and brands, should hand over to the consumer in relation to

What game theory can teach us about brands

Market Leader 2011

All transactions involve games. Rory Sutherland analyses the short versus the long game in business, and wonders if the instinct

The Value of creativity

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Peter Field describes an ingenious analysis of cases from the IPA awards and Gunn report that puts to rest any

Golden brands of 1961

Lemon. If there was one word that summed up marketing and advertising in 1961, it was lemon.

In the US

Accept the challenge

Rubik's

The Brand Learning WheelTM is a simple model to help organisations appreciate what building marketing excellence requires in practice and

Industry issues: time for advertisers and agencies to work together

Time for advertisers and agencies to work together

Looking ahead, there is definitely no shortage of big issues coming our way. Firstly, there is the macro issue of

Marketing and urban myths

work

One of the most successful marketing strategies that the world has seen, which has been employed by professional service firms

Advertising, ethics and the environment: a personal view

environment

The debate about the ethics of advertising and its role both in markets and society has evolved noticeably over the

Responsible marketing from the inside out

marketing

Our employees are our greatest asset.' Most CEOs, especially in the service sector, have said this at one time or

Unmined potential: how coffee could save the diamond industry

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As we stand today, diamond industry manufacturers – the global organisations that buy and polish rough diamonds – are more

A new approach to loyalty reveals hidden opportunities

opportunties

Being a global brand creates great pressure on marketing teams to maintain the core brand's market position, or indeed achieve

The emperor's new clothes: technology is useless if consumers can't use it

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'The new net boom,' announces Fortune. In California, venture capital is flowing. After five years in the doldrums, tech is back. And it's back big time.

Measuring marketing communications: concentrate on outcomes, not outputs

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An agency colleague told us a story about meeting with the KFC franchise marketing board – a group that represented

Net benefit: how the internet is transforming our world

internet

Think back just 13 years. The year is 1993. John Major is Prime Minister. The Tories are in government. Tony

Case study: word-of-mouth marketing

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A leading high-street retailer wanted to expand its branch network into individual towns. But first it needed to resolve a

Organic growth: seven principles that determine winners and losers

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Organic growth is high on the agenda of both managers and shareholders. This is increasingly being reflected in financial reporting